The citation that William A. Blattner used for HIV causing AIDS was
Gallo, R.C. et al., Science 224:500-504 (1984). He called this work an
"unequivocal link [of HIV] as the cause of AIDS." This was in a review
article in FASEB Journal, July 1991. Since Gallo's paper, other papers
have come out with confirming evidence, such as Schechter et al., Lancet
341:658 (1993). Kary Mullis no doubt knows about these papers, and many
more, and rather than saying they don't exist, he should say what he finds
objectionble in them.
Jack Komisar